Golden Globe movie awards: Who should win, who will win

Video: The Golden Globes will be one big party for Hollywood’s A-list stars, and the stars from both the small screen and the silver screen will be out in full force.

The Golden Globes are not the Oscars. The categories are different, and the voters who decide the awards, members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, have their own prejudices and biases. (In 2010, they nominated Johnny Depp's embarrassing flop "The Tourist" for three awards — as a comedy.)

Handicapping the race is anybody's guess, but here are a few picks from the movie side of the awards. Find our TV picks here.

Best picture — dramaShould win: "12 Years a Slave" or "Gravity"Will win: "12 Years a Slave"Not since "Roots" back in 1977 have American audiences been so bluntly confronted with the human side of what slavery meant. ("Django Unchained" was louder and bloodier, but "Slave" is more heartbreaking.) It should be rewarded.

Best picture — comedy or musicalShould win: "Her"Will win: "American Hustle""American Hustle" is a fun, fast romp through a fictionalized version of the ABSCAM scandal, but "Her" does more than any other film this year to delve into the emotion of love, and how it feels to lose it.

Best actor — dramaShould win: Chiwetel Ejiofor, "12 Years a Slave"Will win: Chiwetel Ejiofor, "12 Years a Slave"Ejiofor is amazing. But kudos also to Tom Hanks in "Captain Phillips," for an excruciatingly painful depiction of a man in post-traumatic shock in that film's final scenes.

Best actor — comedy or musicalShould win: Oscar Isaac, "Inside Llewyn Davis" Will win: Leonardo DiCaprio, "Wolf of Wall Street"Sure, DiCaprio had to crawl down stairs and into a sportscar while on Quaaludes, but Isaac had to convince audiences he was a folksinger, musically and otherwise, and he does just that.

Best actress — comedy or musicalShould win: Amy Adams, "American Hustle"Will win: Meryl Streep, "August: Osage County"Another power-packed category. Streep is always Streep, but Adams' con artist character must leap from smooth British purr to desperate American striver, sometimes in the same minute.

Best directorShould win: Alfonso Cuaron, "Gravity"Will win: Likely Cuaron, but maybe Steve McQueen, "12 Years a Slave""Gravity" is stunning and terrifying, and no director has managed to capture that feeling on film before like Cuaron does here.

Best original songShould win: "Let It Go," from "Frozen"Will win: "Let It Go," from "Frozen"It's the "I Am Woman" for Generation Z, a power-packed hymn to being yourself. But it could be challenged by U2's "Ordinary Love" from "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom," or Justin Timberlake and Oscar Isaac's "Please Mr. Kennedy" from "Inside Llewyn Davis." Still, "Let It Go" is the one that will linger.